# spacy > Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python - **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/spacy - **Author**: Explosion - **Category**: Frameworks - **Latest version**: `3.8.14` (2026-04-21) - **License**: MIT - **Source**: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases - **Homepage**: https://spacy.io - **Language**: Python - **GitHub**: 33,496 stars, 4,675 forks - **Registry**: pypi (`spacy`) - **Tags**: `pypi` ## Description # spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP spaCy is a library for **advanced Natural Language Processing** in Python and Cython. It's built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to be used in real products. spaCy comes with [pretrained pipelines](https://spacy.io/models) and currently supports tokenization and training for **70+ languages**. It features state-of-the-art speed and **neural network models** for tagging, parsing, **named entity recognition**, **text classification** and more, multi-task learning with pretrained **transformers** like BERT, as well as a production-ready [**training system**](https://spacy.io/usage/training) and easy model packaging, deployment and workflow management. spaCy is commercial open-source software, released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/LICENSE). 💫 **Version 3.8 out now!** [Check out the release notes here.](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases) [![tests](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/actions/workflows/tests.yml) [![Current Release Version](https://img.shields.io/github/release/explosion/spacy.svg?style=flat-square&logo=github)](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases) [![pypi Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/spacy.svg?style=flat-square&logo=pypi&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/spacy/) [![conda Version](https://img.shields.io/conda/vn/conda-forge/spacy.svg?style=flat-square&logo=conda-forge&logoColor=white)](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/spacy) [![Python wheels](https://img.shields.io/badge/wheels-%E2%9C%93-4c1.svg?longCache=true&style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/explosion/wheelwright/releases) [![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/ambv/black)
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